Western & Southern Financial Group
Western & Southern Financial Group is a Fortune 500 diversified family of financial services companies headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1888, the group offers life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, asset management, retirement planning, and investment management through a family of subsidiaries including Western & Southern Life, Columbus Life, Gerber Life, Integrity Life, Lafayette Life, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Touchstone Investments, and W&S Financial Group Distributors, with over $112 billion in assets under management.
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How we profile Western & Southern Financial Group
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Features 7
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Life Insurance Products
Comprehensive life insurance portfolio including whole life, universal life, term life, key person, critical illness, and buy-sell agreement coverage across multiple subsidiaries.
Annuity Products
Fixed, indexed, variable, immediate, and deferred annuities for retirement accumulation and income through Integrity Life, Lafayette Life, and W&S Financial Group Distributors.
Investment Management
Institutional and high-net-worth investment management through Fort Washington Investment Advisors, and mutual fund offerings through Touchstone Investments.
Digital Insurance Platform
Columbus Life operates a fully digital platform for faster submission-to-commission processing for independent financial service representatives.
Direct-to-Consumer Digital Channel
Fabric by Gerber Life provides affordable term life insurance, will creation, and family financial organization via mobile app and digital platform.
Wholesale Distribution
W&S Financial Group Distributors serves as a wholesale distributor of annuities and life insurance to financial institutions, banks, and independent advisors.
Retirement Planning Tools
Online calculators for life insurance needs, retirement income, college savings, 401(k) projections, and withdrawal strategy planning.
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Agent/Producer Integration
Independent agents and financial service representatives access product information, submit applications, and manage policies through the financial professionals portal.
Institutional Distribution
Banks, broker-dealers, and financial institutions distribute W&S annuity and life insurance products through wholesale partnership agreements.
Retirement Income Planning
Advisors and clients use online tools and product solutions to build retirement income strategies using annuities and managed accounts.
Digital Life Insurance
Consumers purchase and manage term life insurance and estate planning documents digitally through the Fabric by Gerber Life mobile platform.
Integrations 3
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
DTCC Insurance & Retirement Services
Integration with DTCC's insurance and retirement services platform for producer authorization, annuity processing, and lifecycle management using ACORD standards.
ACORD Standards
Life and annuity data standards compliance using ACORD Next-Generation Digital Standards (NGDS) including JSON and YAML-based exchange formats for insurance transactions.
Fidelity Institutional
Product distribution partnership with Fidelity for annuity and insurance product offerings through Fidelity's advisor platform.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Western & Southern Financial Group — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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